On August 15, 2021, believers of the Vinnitsa diocese of the UOC joined the actions against the arrival of Patriarch Bartholomew to Ukraine, according to the Information and Educational Department of the UOC.

Believers of the Vinnitsa diocese protested against the visit to Ukraine of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, believers came with placards: “Bartholomew, you are the destroyer of the Church of Christ.”

Earlier, the believers of the Zaporozhye diocese called for the start of the Stop Bartholomew flash mob.